Sophie Matisse

Sophie Matisse is a painter American, born in 1965 with Boston. It is the girl of the sculptor Paul Matisse, small-girl of the famous merchant of art Pierre Matisse and back-small-girl of the French painter Henri Matisse. Its second grandfather by alliance, is Marcel Duchamp, the inventor of the Ready-made, which had married his/her Teeny grandmother in second wedding.

Any young person, it held of the visual notebooks. She followed her studies to the Art schools to Paris, where she knew a Bohemian life. At that time, it met the painter Alain Jacquet with whom it had his Gaïa daughter.

A long time, it created its tables by copying masterpieces of the history of the art of which it gummed the characters. She worked on the topic of the Mona Lisa of Léonard de Vinci, the Ménines of Diego Vélasquez and also of other works of Johannes Vermeer, of Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. She did not make copies, for example in the case of celebrates it table of her back grandfather, she only made disappear the red fish and the bottle is empty, they are " Missing People Paintings" ( Tableaux without characters ) that it called before of the " Be Back in Five Minutes" ( Of return in five minutes). She definitively stopped this series in 2001, after the attacks of September 11th.

Since it works on a new series, which it calls " Streaked Stripe Paintings". Black and white stripes come to lacerate the fabric as a poster, but let appear famous elements of tables like a table of Dominique Ingres or another of his great-grandfather Henri Matisse.

Works

  • The Monna LISA (1997) photo
  • The Goldfish (1998) photo
  • Young Woman Holding has Water Pitcher (1998) photo
  • The Dance Lesson (1999) photo
  • Woman with has Pearl Necklace (1999) off photo
  • The Art Painting (1999) photo
  • John Boglin in has Single Skull (2000) photo
  • Absinthe (2001) photo
  • Las Meninas (2001) photo
  • American Gothic (2001) photo
  • Absinthe (2001) photo
  • Nighthawks (2001) photo
  • The Staircase Group (2001) photo
  • The Conversation (2001) photo
  • Origin off the World (2003) photo
  • Final Guernica (2003) photo
  • Lions Den (2005) photo
  • Blue Nude (2005) photo

External bonds

  • Gallery of tables of Sophie Matisse

  • '' Back in Five '' Minutes, article on Sophie Matisse and tables

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